Improvement in portable fences



S. G. BURKE.

' Portable Fences.

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SOLOMON G. BURKE, OF CHAMBERS COURT-HOUSE, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,202, dated July 29,1873; application filed J une 20, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SoLoMoN G. BURKE, of Chambers Court- House, Chamberscounty, Alabama, have invented an Improvement in Portable Fences; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawing, in which-Figure 1 represents a perspective View of my improved fence, and Fig. 2a cross-section; Fig. 3, a view of the end, and Fig. 4 a view ofdetails. 4

My invention relates to the construction of a portable fence so that itmay be made straight or bent at an angle, and can be short or long, atpleasure, is firm and durable, and may be easilytaken down and as easilyput up.

In the drawings, A A represent the panels made entire and complete inthemselves; B, the sill upon which ends or other part of the panelsrest; 0, the lock-braces, which are notched at the top with doublenotches, as seen in Fig. 4, the lower ends being secured to the sides ofthe ends of the sills by means of bolts or other fastening, the tops, bymeans of the notches, locking together the tops of the panels. D is awedge which is inserted in a notch in the sill beneath the bottom of theends of the lapped panels, and, together with the lock-braces, bind thewhole together.

The operation of my device is as follows: The sills, with their notchesuppermost, are placed upon the ground at suitable distances apart, andthe ends of two panels placed in the notches. The ends of the panels maylap past each other more or less, the effect in clamping them togetherbeing the same. The locking-braces are then inserted between the top andthe adjoining rail of the panels, the notches embracing the rail oneither side, as is fully shown in the drawings. The lower end of thebraces are then brought down and bolted or otherwise secured to the endsof the sills, when the fence is complete.

Pegs may be used to more firmly secure the ends of the panels together;but it is not essential, as the wedge and locking-braces firmly clampthe whole together.

To form an angle in the fence a bolt, shown at E, Fig. 3, bent at anangle, is inserted in the ends of the rails of two adjoining panelsplaced at an angle, and, by means of a nut and screw at one end and thebatten of the panel, the angle is formed, the batten preventing the endof the rail of the other panel from moving sidewise of the bolt.

To take my fence down it is only necessary to draw the wedge D andunt'asten the lockbraces from the sills, and by raising them the fencecomes apart. 7

'What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

In combination with the panels A A, the panel-support, consisting of thenotched sill B, the notched braces O 0 attached thereto, and thekey-wedge D, arranged substantially as shown, and for the purposedescribed.

The above specification of my said invention signed and witnessed atChambers Court- House, Alabama, this 16th day of June, A. D.

SOLOMON G. BURKE.

Witnesses IKE H. VINCENT, JOHN HUGULY.

